1. Love the distortion effect when hovering on your links 2. Also love the cookie page I got redirected to after letting the tab sit for a while. 🤣

Does anyone else say “Woo hoo!” when they turn on the Blur option in Zoom? Just me?

Signed up for Fan Club’s Guide to COVID Safe(r) Events, a free Zoom workshop this Thursday. Sounds great:

“This workshop teaches a layered approach to reducing COVID spread at events through a disability justice and harm reductionist lens. We will go over specific tools like masks and air purifiers, as well as some tips on implementation and navigating questions or pushback from venues or attendees.”

Day 2 of Weird Web October! Prompt: CSS

gregorlove.com/site/assets/misc/2024-wwo-02.html

That’s adorable! I swear I did not see yours until after I published mine. 😂

Here is my first entry for Weird Web October: gregorlove.com/site/assets/misc/2024-wwo-01.html

YouTube Music

Just making some small Wikipedia edits today.

(Not really, it’s just a browser preview 😂)

Want to read: The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (ISBN 9780553373806)

“To carry a burden was to be alive”

via chronicelle’s TikTok

My friend Catherine is publishing her first book of poetry on Monday, September 16! Barely a Whisper: Poems from the Heart of a Woman Re-becoming. Please check it out!

I am upset but not surprised that Nassau County passed a public mask ban. Misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine and vague exemptions for health or religious reasons — left up to police to decide, of course. 😡

I’ve been using Insomnia for testing API calls for a while and have been mostly pleased with it. Today I noticed I was several versions behind and the app no longer seemed to have a Check for Updates option. I went to their site and found new versions.

I made the mistake of just installing the latest version, thinking the upgrade would go smoothly. The new version opened without any of my API request collections. It looked like it found some older collections, but I had to login in order to migrate them. That was frustrating, especially since I’m not using any of their cloud or paid features, but sure, I’ll sign up for an account since you’re holding it hostage.

After entering my email, it told me to enter the verification code they sent me. No email came from them, though. I tried to re-send it and still no dice after waiting for half an hour. I get that this is a nice way to verify the authenticity of an email address, but it’s very frustrating that it prevents me from even using the app. They should at least let people sign in and then prompt to verify the email address as a separate step.

At that point I did what I should have done first 🤣 and searched for issues with upgrading. I was very much not alone. From that thread, I found that several people had downgraded to version 2023.5.8, the last version before version 8, and their collections were restored. I did that and voila, my collections are back! I immediately turned off the preference to automatically download software updates.

I should probably switch to Postman, but also found Hoppscotch.io and httpie recommended as open source options, so I’ll check into those too.

Periodic reminder to myself as much as anyone else: foster an environment of delight around learning new things rather than shock that someone doesn’t know something, no matter how “common” it is. Evergreen xkcd: xkcd.com/1053/

Authoritarian court says, “Sure, criminalize unhoused people” and “progressive” governor jumps right on the bandwagon. Cool cool cool.

It is increasingly important to connect with our communities and mutual aid groups. There are plenty of needs to meet. We are all we got.

You’re welcome! It really can feel so lonely out there. It’s always a breath of fresh air to see things like this and be reminded we’re not alone. 💛

“During the Pandemic” is Now: Why E&W Still Has a COVID Policy

This article is 🔥. Well-stated and good resources linked within.

Version 0.2.2 of the ProcessWire IndieAuth Module is released:

• Admin tools to support the Client Credentials flow and manually adding a token when testing
• Added an Introspection endpoint
• Updated client information discovery. It now prefers the JSON document and falls back to parsing microformats2.
• Scoped dependencies so this can more easily run on the same site with ProcessWire Webmentions without conflicts
• More in the changelog

In the #indieweb chat there’s a helpful bot named Loqi that answers questions from the wiki and lets us add countdowns. Sometimes the bot seems like magic and there’s jokes about it gaining sentience. To that end, I apparently added a countdown in 2018 for 6 years out: “Loqi can drive.” It was something I set and forgot, so it gave me a laugh to get the countdown notification today.

You can also “give” Loqi things and it will respond with random things, so this funny exchange happened afterward:

gRegor gives Loqi a car
Loqi laughs at the car
gRegor gives Loqi a cybertruck
Loqi gives back the cybertruck

See, smart bot.

I prefer to use curly quotes and apostrophes in my posts, but unfortunately they are tricky to use on Windows. You have to type an incantation like ALT + 0147 to get “ and ALT + 0148 to get ” — and only on the keyboard number pad, not the numbers in the top row.

Alas, I have no number pad currently.

In recent years I’ve been using the Graphemica site since I have this search in my browser autocomplete: https://graphemica.com/search?q=quote. It’s a good reference site, but it is still a bit tedious to copy the characters.

Stack Overflow came to the rescue with a one-liner browser bookmarklet that lets you put text in your clipboard using the Clipboard API.

So I set up these four bookmarklets. You can create a new bookmark in your browser, enter a title for it, then copy the full bookmarklet line into the URL field. Rinse and repeat. Each bookmarklet URL should start with javascript:

Left Quote:
javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('“');

Right Quote:
javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('”');

Right Single Quote / Apostrophe:
javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('’');

Left Single Quote:
javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('‘');

I initially had the null; at the end like the Stack Overflow answer. That worked in Chrome but I found it didn’t work in Firefox. When I removed it, it worked in both.